Listening skills practice: Giving directions – exercises

Do the preparation exercise first. Then look at the map and listen to the directions while you do the
exercises.

Preparation
Do this exercise before you listen. Write the correct word in the boxes below the picture.

take the second

turn left roundabout next to go past
left

take the second

turn right opposite traffic lights go straight on
right

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Take the second
roundabout next to turn right
right

Go past

Take the second traffic lights Go straight on opposite turn left

left
1. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen.

A. The speaker gives directions to the POST OFFICE

B. The speaker gives directions to the UNDERGROUND STATION

C. The speaker gives directions to the CINEMA

D. The speaker gives directions to the BUS STATION

2. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

take past on

At second
straight
Go

1. Go STRAIGHT on.

2. GO past the traffic lights.

3. It’s the building next to the library ON the left.

4. AT the roundabout turn left.

5. Then TAKE the first left on to Green Street.

6. Go POST the traffic lights and take the SECOND right on to King’s Road.

What do you do when you get lost in a town or city?

1. Ask local people for directions

2. Find a way out using smart phones / maps

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

There are no new worlds that i get in the lesson